Aleksandar Fabijanic

Optional and Nullable Improvements

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- `Optional` in terms of `std::optional` - `Nullable` should be implemented in terms of `std::unique_ptr` - `NullType` should be `nullptr_t` (or at least a `static const`) - tests

**Describe the bug** Launch thread silently ignores any errors or exceptions. **To Reproduce** Launch a non-existing executable. EDIt: there seems to be no reliable portable way to detect what exactly...

Supporting string_view

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### Discussed in https://github.com/pocoproject/poco/discussions/4331 Originally posted by **teksturi** December 10, 2023 Hello. We use Poco and are quite happy with it. However, we have already converted our entire internal codebase...

Prevent duplicate CI runs

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Too many unnecessary CI runs, try to fix it with https://github.com/marketplace/actions/skip-duplicate-actions#skip-duplicate-workflow-runs

**Describe the bug** ProcessRunner erases its PID file name https://github.com/pocoproject/poco/blob/e4aaeacea8872e9361f3d67217c5a254cf6fc773/Foundation/src/ProcessRunner.cpp#L188

**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.** Need to be able to register callback for `ServerApplication` termination **Describe the solution you'd like** `static std::function` defaulting to `nullptr`;...

Poco::DateTime uses assertions for validation #1540

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Is [negative](https://github.com/pocoproject/poco/blob/e4aaeacea8872e9361f3d67217c5a254cf6fc773/Foundation/testsuite/src/DateTimeTest.cpp#L96) year valid or [not](https://github.com/pocoproject/poco/blob/e4aaeacea8872e9361f3d67217c5a254cf6fc773/Foundation/include/Poco/DateTime.h#L55)? #1859

**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.** need an equivalent of `postbuild` action

**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.** Application loads config files and forgets which file(s) it has loaded. **Describe the solution you'd like** Make `Application::getApplicationPath()` and `Application::findAppConfigFile()`...